Biggest Cyber Attacks, Ransomware Attacks, Data Breaches of March 2025

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Victim

Summary

Threat Actor

Business Impact

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March 03, 2025

Rubrik

Rubrik rotates authentication keys after log server breach

Unknown

Rubrik disclosed last month that one of its servers hosting log files was breached, causing the company to rotate potentially leaked authentication keys as its security team discovered anomalous activity on a server that contained log files. 

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 03, 2025

Stock Broker Angel One

Indian Stock Broker Angel One Discloses Data Breach

Unknown

Indian stock brokerage firm Angel One disclosed a data breach impacting client information stored in its Amazon Web Services (AWS) account. Following the data breach announcement, Angel One’s shares dropped over 11% in two days, hitting a 52-week low on March 3.

Source: Security Week

March 06, 2025

Carruth Compliance Consulting

Thousands of public school workers impacted by cyber attack on retirement plan administrator

Skira Ransomware

A December 2024 cyber attack on a prominent administrator for retirement plans has exposed the information of thousands of public school teachers and employees across the U.S. Dozens of public schools across the country reported data breaches to regulators in Maine, Massachusetts, Vermont and several other states, warning that sensitive data was stolen through Carruth Compliance Consulting – a company that provides third-party administrative services to public school districts and non-profit organisations for their 403(b) and 457(b) retirement savings plans. A new cybercriminal operation named Skira Team took credit for the attack, claiming to have stolen data from 36 public schools.

Source: The Record Media

March 06, 2025

NTT Communications Corporation

Data breach at Japanese telecom giant NTT hits 18,000 companies

Unknown

Japanese telecommunication services provider NTT Communications Corporation (NTT) has warned almost 18,000 corporate customers that their information was compromised during a cybersecurity incident. NTT said hackers breached its ‘Order Information Distribution System,’ which held details on 17,891 corporate customers (companies), but no data on personal customers (consumers).

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 10, 2025

PowerSchool

PowerSchool previously hacked in August, months before data breach

Unknown

PowerSchool has published a long-awaited CrowdStrike investigation into its massive December 2024 data breach, which determined that the company was previously hacked over 4 months earlier, in August, and then again in September as the breach impacted 6,505 school districts in the US, Canada, and other countries, with 62,488,628 students and 9,506,624 teachers having their data stolen.

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 17, 2025

Western Alliance Bank

Western Alliance Bank says nearly 22,000 impacted by file transfer software breach

Clop Ransomware

Phoenix-based Western Alliance Bank said the information of more than 20,000 people was stolen through a vulnerability in a popular file sharing tool last year. The bank confirmed that it was affected by a vulnerability in a “third-party vendor’s secure file try Western Alliance and numerous other organisations.” The information stolen includes names, Social Security numbers and in some cases, dates of birth, financial account numbers, driver’s license numbers, tax identification numbers and passports.

Source: The Record Media

March 18, 2025

GitHub Action

GitHub Action hack likely led to another in cascading supply chain attack

Unknown

A cascading supply chain attack that began with the compromise of the “reviewdog/action-setup@v1” GitHub Action is believed to have led to the recent breach of “tj-actions/changed-files” that leaked CI/CD secrets.

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 18, 2025

Dogequest

Dogequest Website exposes Tesla owners’ sensitive information

Unknown

A website called “Dogequest” allegedly published the personal information of Tesla owners across the U.S. in an apparent attempt to shame and intimidate them, amid tech billionaire Elon Musk’s growing interference in government. “Encouraging destruction of Teslas throughout the country is extreme domestic terrorism!!” Musk posted on X.

Dogequest data breach

March 19, 2025

Pennsylvania State Education Association

Half a million people impacted by Pennsylvania State Education Association data breach

Rhysida Ransomware

More than 500,000 people were impacted by a cyber attack on the Pennsylvania State Education Association (PSEA) that took place in July 2024. The organisation published breach notices in several states and on its website, warning its current and former members as well as their dependants that hackers broke into their systems last year and stole state IDs, Social Security numbers, financial account numbers, payment card information, passport numbers, taxpayer IDs, health insurance information and medical data.

Source: The Record Media

March 19, 2025

Ascom, Jira

HellCat hackers go on a worldwide Jira hacking spree

HellCat Ransomware 

Swiss global solutions provider Ascom has confirmed a cyber attack on its IT infrastructure as a hacker group known as Hellcat targets Jira servers worldwide using compromised credentials as the company announced that hackers breached its technical ticketing system and is currently investigating the incident. The HellCat hacking group claimed the attack and said that they stole about 44GB of data that may impact all of the company’s divisions.

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 19, 2025

Sperm donation giant California Cryobank

Sperm donation giant California Cryobank warns of a data breach

Unknown

US sperm donor giant California Cryobank is warning customers it suffered an April 2024 data breach that exposed customers’ personal information. An almost a year-long investigation has determined that the attack exposed varying personal data for customers, including names, bank accounts and routing numbers, Social Security numbers, driver’s license numbers, payment card numbers, and/or health insurance information.

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 20, 2025

China’s Baidu

China’s Baidu denies data breach after executive’s daughter leaks personal info

Human Error

Chinese search giant Baidu denied allegations it had suffered an internal data breach after a top executive’s teenage daughter posted personal details of other internet users online, sparking a controversy. Baidu said all employees and executives at all levels were prohibited from accessing user data and the information posted by the teenager originated from illegally obtained “doxing databases” on foreign platforms, which aggregate stolen private data.

Source: Reuters

March 21, 2025

Coinbase

Coinbase was primary target of recent GitHub Actions breaches

Unknown

Researchers have determined that Coinbase was the primary target in a recent GitHub Actions cascading supply chain attack that compromised secrets in hundreds of repositories as the threat actors modified the action to dump CI/CD secrets and authentication tokens into GitHub Actions logs.

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 21 and 26, 2025

Oracle

Oracle denies breach after hacker claims theft of 6 million data records, but customers confirm it

Rose87168, a BreachForums account name

Despite Oracle denying a breach of its Oracle Cloud federated SSO login servers and the theft of account data for 6 million people, it has been confirmed with multiple companies that associated data samples shared by the threat actor are valid.

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 26, 2025

StreamElements

StreamElements discloses third-party data breach after hacker leaks data

“Victim”, a BreachForum name

Cloud-based streaming company StreamElements confirmed it suffered a data breach at a third-party service provider after a threat actor leaked samples of stolen data on a hacking forum. A BreachForum hacker claimed to have stolen the data of 210,000 StreamElements customers on March 20, 2025 as the threat actor shared samples of the stolen data, which included full names, addresses, phone numbers, and email addresses.

Source: Bleeping Computer

March 26, 2025

Numotion

U.S. wheelchair maker Numotion says data breach impacted half a million customers

Black Basta group

Tennessee-based healthcare mobility services provider Numotion recently suffered a serious data security incident that compromised the sensitive personal information of nearly half a million individuals.

Source: Teiss UK

March 26, 2025

NYU

Hacker defaces NYU website, exposing admissions data on 1 million students

Computer Niggy Exploitation

The hacker accessed and replaced the NYU homepage with charts and links to large student datasets categorizing standardized testing scores based on race. The threat actor also claimed personal information identifying students was redacted but linked to four different datasets that included personal information on NYU applicants, their citizenship status and more.

Source: The Record Media

March 26, 2025

Lafayette Federal Credit Union

Over 75,000 people impacted in Lafayette Federal Credit Union data breach

Unknown

Maryland-based Lafayette Federal Credit Union said the data security incident it suffered last year compromised the sensitive personal information of more than 75,000 individuals.

Source: Teiss UK

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